Motorola To Launch The First Ever Modular Smartphones

Remember the whacky and innovative idea of Phonebloks that stormed the internet about the possibility of assembling smartphones to your liking? Right when some surfers where busy helming this as the future of smartphones, there were others who bashed the idea as being practically impossible to pull off due to technical snags and inefficient innovation in the field. Motorola seems to have taken that as a dare and have kicked off something revolutionary for smartphone users. Presenting to you, Project Ara!

What's Ara?

Ara is Motorola's foray into the same ideology of Phonebloks that allows users to purchase various components of a smartphone and assemble one all by themself. Working with the imagineers of Phonebloks, Motorola has kicked off Project Ara, an open-sourced initiative that will create an ecosystem that can allow users to use third-party hardware components with their smartphones.

How Are They Doing It?

To kick off, Motorola have devised a basic structure - titled the Endoskeleton - that will form the base for various other components to be set on. This endoskeleton will house the desired hardware specification you need. A 13 megapixel camera? Done. More battery? Done. A QWERTY keypad? No problem. The prospect of making this an open-source project will allow various third-party manufacturers to produce components specifically for the project, giving users a variety of manufacturers to choose from. In other words, you can have your smartphone camera manufactured by Carl Zeiss, or Canon, or Nikon, or practically anybody else!

Will This Work?

While there were sceptics all around voicing their dismay about the whole idea, the concept in its virtual stage in itself caught up with millions of people. And now that Motorola, owned by Google, is backing such a project and being a key member in the development, rest assured we will be watching this innovative idea bear fruit in front of our eyes soon enough.